$50 of AI Later: Lessons from Burning Credits Fast
AI credits vanished quickly, highlighting hidden costs and forcing clarity into my development process. Here's how a $50 investment turned into a practical blueprint for smarter AI‑assisted builds.
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The Lost‑Phone Test for AI: Could Your Org Still Function Tomorrow?
Dropped phone, lost life. Same test applies to corporate AI: if your copilots vanished tomorrow, would work even slow down? The “Lost-Phone Test” exposes integration gaps and makes the case for a Chief Intelligence Officer to weave tools into real workflows.
Overnight Dev: From Rage-Quit to Release in 72 Hours—With AI Riding Shotgun
Burned-out coder to live app in one weekend: two failed scrapers, one hidden JSON API, and AI tools that scaffolded the rest. How DevTools + GPT turned AES volleyball data into an MVP—and why your next Jira ticket might build itself.
It’s Time for the CIO 2.0
Most AI conversations start in the wrong place — with tools, not capabilities. What’s missing isn’t another pilot. It’s a new executive role: someone to steward how your organization thinks, learns, and evolves.
Not Just Fast, But Together
If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together
Is Resilience a Systems Problem?
In my last post, I wrote about the shift from shutdown to speedrun — how we’ve had to adapt, over and over again, just to keep moving. First to survive the pandemic. Now to keep up with AI.
From Shutdown to Speedrun
The Cost of Surviving the Age of Constant Upgrades